This blog addresses the fatal flaw at the core of capitalism as a system of human psycho-socio-political-economic collective self-reproduction, a flaw which ultimately renders it a self-DIS-organizing, self-destroying system -- as is becoming increasingly evident. It also details the successor system to capitalism, the new system that represents the higher, positive way forward for humanity: Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, or EQUITISM.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Explicit Discussion of Falling Return-on-Capital
Rates among Lower Layers of the Capitalist Plutocracy -- Studies in the Late-Emerging Consciousness of ‘Technodepreciation’ within the Wider Ruling Class.

Commentary on Passages from the American Management
Associations’ 1974 book Return On Investment --

This blog-entry contains my commentary on some passages,
extracted below, from a book, authored by Robert A. Peters, a graduate of the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and, as of the time of publication of this book, the comptroller
of the Consumer and Technical Products Group of the Owens-Illinois Corporation,
Toledo, Ohio.

This book was published by the American Management
Association[AMA]s’ AMA-COM [“Committee On Management”]
division. It contains an explicit and direful discussion of a continuing secularfall in the rate of
profit on industrial
[“manufacturing”] capital -- as it appears in capitalist consciousness and
ideology:as capitalists see it,
and compute it -- published in 1974, that is, on the eve of the explicit public
visibility of the post-1968, devastating
de-industrialization of the Northeast and Midwest regions of U.S. North America, that has since more than decimated so much of
the family assets, the per capita
income, and the percentage numbers of the U. S. industrial working class, and its
formerly “middle class” standard of living.

Sectors of the U.S. Economy as Percent of U.S.-GDP, 1947-2009*.

This blog-entry is intended to deepen both our extant data, and our
extant ‘dis-falsification’, or corroboration, regarding the hypothesis of the
‘techno-depreciation meta-dynamic’ fatal flaw of the capitalist system that we
have advanced in this blog.

In particular, this commentary provides both further
empirical data, further elaboration and clarification, and further
corroboration of the hypotheses regarding the ‘social forces of production # social relations of production’ ‘intra-duality’ of human society in general, and of capitalist society specifically, and, within the ‘‘‘social relations of production’’’ side of that primary'intra-duality' -- i.e., within its “CAPITAL-relation” side of that primary/universal
human-social ‘intra-duality’ -- the ‘capital as self-expanding value # capital as self-contracting value’ subordinate, secondary‘intra-duality’ [using the doubly-slashed/doubly-negated
equals sign, '#', as our sign for immanent, dialectical, internal, or
“self-contradiction”, i.e., for ‘intra-duality’ / ‘self-duality’].

I both hope and intend that this blog-entry will help you to
incrementally advance your understanding of the causation of the content of
recent Terran human history, some of which history you may have experienced personally.

Regards,

Miguel

[Peters]:“The subject of this book is not only important -- it is vital...American
industry, collectively, is introuble, and trends are continuing in the wrongdirection.This is not an idle cry of alarm to attract attention.It is very real, and veryfrightening.The
rewards of business have been declining in relation to the investment required to produce these
rewards.We are fast approaching the criticalpoint where prospective rewards will notjustify
the perpetuation of freeenterprise as we know it today.”

Commentary by M.D.¡Yes, you really did just read it:this is a technical, accountancy servant
of the industrial capitalist, lower/wider ruling class, bemoaning the
longstanding secular fall in the rate of profit on capital in U.S. industry,
and warning that “perpetuation of free enterprise as we know it”is in dire
jeopardydue to that fall in the rate of industrial capital profitability!Karl Marx, from at least 1857 on, with his discovery of his “law of the tendency
of the rate of profit to fall” predicted that the day would come -- ~117 years
after Marx predicted it, in this case -- when even capitalists and their servants
would find themselves moved, based upon their experiences, to write such words!

[Peters]:“Chart 1-1 shows that over the past 25 years not only have profitsdeclined in relationship to the
equity of shareholders, but, much more important, the returnoninvestment earned by durable
goods manufacturers has fallen
even moreand now can only be classified as marginal."

“The “return on investment” shown in Chart 1-1 is
calculated according to the technique described in Chapter 5 of this book; it
is a very real
number, directly comparable with the familiar interest rate on savings
accounts, bonds, and so on.But almost any way one puts together data involving profit or cash
flow on oneside, and some definition of investment on the other, the trend
lines point the same way -- down!These
are, of course, averages; some companies have done better, others not so
well.But collectively the
industrialbastion of oureconomicsystem is
being seriouslyundermined.”

Commentary by M.D.Capitalists do not compute the rate of profit on capital in the analytically deep and correct way that Marx
did, in relation to his presently-socially-necessary-labor-time-value /
surplus-value theory of the capitals-system and of its profitability-dynamics,
as s’/(c + v), wherein the s’ numerator denotes the output, the net
[’] surplus-value [“profit”] produced -- net of taxes,
rents, interest, insurances, losses, and many other expenses -- by means of
their productive use of the (c + v) denominator input.That denominator, in turn, sums the inputs whose productive uses caused that netoutput. The component c denotes the cost of the “constant capital” “invested”, e.g., of the non-surplus-value-producing
means of production consumed
-- the raw materials used-up in the product, and the plant and equipment, partially
consumed by “wear and tear” in their productive use -- in producing the output
whose successful sale yields the s’.The v
component denotes "variable capital", the wages-cost of the “labor-power” input, of the
‘power-to-labor’ also “consumed” in producing what ultimately became that
s’ profit: the cost, paid by the capitalist, of the
human muscle, nerve, brain, and bodily and mental human energy input used-up in
the process of producing what ultimately yields that same s’as output.

Thus, in the Marxian analysis, the “wages bill” is
part of the capital
invested; is part of the capitalinput to the productionof the s’ “profit” / “return” output.

Capitalist, ideological consciousness, on the
contrary, tends to deny the wage-labor source of profit.It even tends, at times, to
fetishistically hold that capital, and only capital, magically -- including in
the form of fixed capital plant and equipment, as well as, sometimes, in the
form of mere paper titles, which directly produce no output of goods -- is the sole source
and cause of profit returns, including that only dead labor [fixed capital plant and equipment, apart from the
workers who “work” it] -- never living labor -- produces profit returns.

Anyway, competition enforces that capitalists act as
if such were true.

So the capitalists’ metrics for profitability are
typically on the theme of something more like s’/C, whose denominator,
here denoted by “Capital”, C, denotes, not c, but the source and opposite of c, of constant capital consumed, namely, C =remaining , not-yet-“circulating”, i.e., still
“fixed”, Capital; ‘‘‘constant capital’’’ not-yet-consumed / -depreciated.

Capitalist profit-rate metrics tend to treat
wage-labor cost as a mere “expense”, not as an investment input/cause of profit.

[Peters]:“In the late 1940s, business
depreciated its assets over an average life of about 20 years.In recent years, however, book
depreciation rates for manufacturers of durable goods now average closer to 15
years.The significance of this is
very great.Economicobsolescence as a
resultofadvancingtechnology has a much greater
impact than it used to.And the trend undoubtedly will continue, since the rate of technologicalprogress shows no sign
of leveling off.While cash flows are being stimulated by the increased depreciation, the
need to modernize is now demandingreinvestmentmorequickly than before.Even with the stimulus given to cash
flow by depreciation, total cash flow (profit and depreciation) in relation to
investment has declined.As a
consequence, business has been
forced to take on additional debt.Much of this debt has been justified under the
banner of expansion, but unfortunately it has in reality resulted from industry’s inability to earn
enough of a return to provide the capital needed to maintain itself in a
viable state. ..."

"From the vantage point of shareholders, cash flow in
relation to equity has improved slightly, and acted as a tranquilizer or mask to the aforementioned danger signals.But this is phony.The “improvement” is exclusively the
result of a sharp increase in
the percentage of debt as a part of capitalization.
...The real problem has been obscured."

"If all this isn’t enough, the persistentinflation
of recent years has further aggravated matters.Today’sprofits and cash flows are being measured against
yesterday’scosts of assets, which of itself tends to produce an illusion of
well-being that is totally unwarranted....In a few words:Business desperately needs new tools, for the old ones are leading
us down the primrose path.When returns become insufficient
to attract capital, economicstagnation and decay are inevitable.There
isn’t much time left to change direction.”

Commentary by M.D.In the first paragraph of the three
above, Peters begin to address the causation of the profitability
predicament that he has been
heralding.

Like Veblen, in the passages commented-upon in another
recent-previous blog-entry here --http://capitalismsfundamentalflaw-wayforward.blogspot.com/2013/08/thorstein-veblens-version-of-marxs-law.html-- Peters attributes the fall in
the rate of return on industrialcapital that he documents most explicitly to the rising “rate of technological
progress”, i.e., to what we term ‘the rising time-rate of technodepreciation’, not explicitly, here, also, to the rising “cross-section”
of exposure of fixed capital plant and equipment to ‘technodepreciation’ due to
something like what Marx named “the [tendentially rising] technical composition of capital” in
relation to “the [tendentially rising] organic composition of capital”, and to the tendentially rising c/v ratio, or even to a rising C/v ratio, as their --
imperfect -- quantitative metric.

Peters’s phrase in that first paragraph that reads
“cash flows have been stimulated by increased depreciation” could be taken as an indirect acknowledgement of a
rising ‘fixed capital composition of total capital’, if not of the ‘co-causal’
role thereof in rendering the fall in the post-WWII rate of profit, since
~1950, that he notes: a greater proportion, and mass, of fixed capital to
total capital resulting in a greater proportion, and mass, of depreciation
“expense”, especially if wear-and-tear, physical depreciation costs are
combined with ‘technodepreciation’, obsolescence write-offs
against gross profits.Maybe
Peters thought that this rising fixed capital composition is simply, empirically too
obvious to need mentioning.

However, a casual reader might, at this stage in
Peters’ argument, attribute this “increased depreciation” to
federal tax law changes that had increased the availability of “accelerated
depreciation” expensing methods.

Moreover, Peters references this “increased
depreciation” in the context of rising “top-line”/numerator cash flows from gross sales, not
in the context of falling “bottom-line” net profits.

So Peters, circa 1974, still falls short of the deeper insights into capitalist
profitability-dynamics that Marx achieved circa 1857, ~117 years earlier, in the Grundrisse, although Peter’s is clearer -- or oppositely
one-sided -- regarding the profitability-depressing moment of the
‘technodepreciation dynamic’ than Marx often was.

Marx often emphasized the profit-rate-raising,
denominator-impact of ‘technodepreciation’ write-offs, especially for later
owners, in later accounting
periods, after the earlier
owner’s businesses failed due to such ‘technodepreciation’ write-offs / losses.

Marx also thus often de-emphasized
the profit-rate-lowering, numerator-impact of such write-offs of
‘“morally-depreciated”’ fixed capital plant and equipment value, when
subtracted from gross profits, because that equipment had been retired from
production-use “prematurely -- long before its full “wear-and-tear”,
‘‘‘physical depreciation’’’ -- due to its technological, or "moral" [Marx], obsolescence.

[Peters]:“In summary, the conclusion is
that cash flow provides a better way to get a handle on results than does
reported profit.If depreciation [M.D.:of
“fixed-capital” plant and equipment] were only of nominal influence, this
entire discussion would be a tempest in a teapot.But as business in general hasbecome more capital-intensive, depreciation correspondingly has grown to a
very large number.In heavy industry, it is quite common for bookdepreciation
to equal or exceed reported profits.”

Commentary by M.D.Here is the nod, from Peters -- almost
explicitly -- to the capital composition change ‘co-cause’ of the falling
profitability that he has presented, and that Marx emphasized so consistently: “If depreciation were only
of nominal influence, this entire discussion would be a tempest in a
teapot.But as business
in general hasbecome more capital-intensive, depreciation correspondingly has grown to a
very large number.In heavyindustry, it is quite common for bookdepreciation
to equal or exceed reported profits.Note,
however, that Peter’s emphasis here is on the improved management discernment
of actual
profitability rates that results from using cash flow in place of reported
“profits” for the numerator of his proposed [profit-]Return On Capital Investment
[ROI] ratio, not on the causal role of increasing fixed capital compositionof total capital in creating a growing ‘‘‘shortage’’’ of profit-"mass" and of profit-rate.

[Peters]:“We have seen that ROIs
for business in total have atrophied over the years to the point of threatening
the economic viability of the freeenterprise system.If
business, collectively, cannot generate a satisfactoryreturnon its investment, ourwayoflifeisindeeptrouble.
And we are getting close to that point ...”

"...the deteriorating trend of performance
inU. S.
industryis
unmistakable.Of perhaps more significance, the
absolutenumbers are now becoming alarming.Who
wants to put their money out to risk in U. S. durablegoodsmanufacturers with returns like these?”

Commentary by M.D.Again, in conclusion, Peters sounds the
alarm, in dire terms for the interests of -- for the wealth of, and for the 'socio-econo-political' power of -- at the very least, the “outer”, “lower”
layers of the capitalist ruling class who he is addressing in this book, in
words that Marx essentially foretold over a century ago.

Global Strategic Hypothesis:The “innermost”, “highest” layer of the capitalist ruling
class became aware of this death dynamic of the capitalist system far earlier, circathe 1880s, and began their counter-offensive,
with their engineering of the 1907 'designer depression', to "argue for" their Federal Reserve Act, with their 1913
imposition of that “Federal” Reserve Act, and of their Federal Income Tax, so as to have deductions from the wages of workers finance the suppression of industrialization / productive forces growth in the capitalist periphery, with their engineering of World War I, and their selling of munitions to all of its sides, with the
foundation that World War I laid for the industry-wasting “Military-Industrial Complex”
[Eisenhower] to come, with their massive funding of their “Eugenics” ideology, and, facilitated by their engineering of
the 1929+ “Global Great Depression I” 'designer depression', their world-wide imposition of Fascist, genocidal [“Eugenics”]
state-capitalisttotalitarian dictatorships -- under their, unified, control -- across much of Latin America, Europe, and Asia,
until their agenda for global reversal of the historic growth of thehuman-social forces of production, and therefore also theiragenda for global dictatorship, and for global, “Eugenics”
multi-genocide, was interrupted, temporarily, when their erstwhile
‘servant-dictator’, Hitler, turned ‘Franken-Dictator’, and then again when
Stalinism challenged their global rule, after the Hitler regime's removal by World War II...until they could finally
resume that agenda, in earnest, in 1989. *Image source(s) [used with permission but not endorsement] --

Economic Report of the President: 2011 Report Spreadsheet Tables, B-12. Gross domestic product (GDP) by industry, value added, in current dollars and as a percentage of GDP, 1979-2009, U.S. Government Printing Office [1] (11/25/2011)

Value Added by Industry in Current Dollars, Quantity Indexes by Industry, and Price Indexes by Industry, 1947-1997; Value Added by Industry, Gross Output by Industry, Intermediate Inputs by Industry, and the Components of Value Added by Industry, 1987-1997, Gross-Domestic-Product-(GDP)-by-Industry Data, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, [3] (11/25/2011)

Date: 27 November 2011Source:Own workAuthor:Jmk7Note the precipitous fall
in the share of “Total manufacturing” in total U.S.-GDP [broken/dashed blue graph line], in ‘contra-parallel’ with
the rise in the GDP share of the “FIRE” sector -- Finance, Insurance,
Real Estate, Rental, and Leasing [broken/dashed red graph line] -- with the rise in the GDP
share of “Services” --“Professional and Business Services” [solid red
graph line] -- with the rise in the GDP share of “Educational services, health
care, and socialassistance [dotted green
graph line], and with the rising foreign tradedeficit [solid black line with dot-tics].

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Fundamental Hypothesis Regarding the Dialectical
Historical Dynamics of Modern Society.

Dear Readers,

¿How do we grasp, at the highest level, the unity and totality of modern
history, of capitalism?

Below is my rendition of the core of the F.E.D.’s answer, based upon the work of Karl Seldon.

The passage below mentions a [new, ‘qualo-quantitative’] “metric”
for Marx’s fundamental concept of “the social forces of production”.

That metric, and the breakthrough in dialectical social
science that it represents, has been scheduled for public release, by the F.E.D. General Council, under advisement from the F.E.D. Special Council of Psychohistorians, for a target date in the
month following this month.

Thus, that metric is not constructed herein, but I plan to
construct it for you in a blog-entry that I am planning for next month.

Regards,

Miguel

The metric of the human social forces of production is a
measure of the unified, Darwinian and ‘Meta-Darwinian’fitness of the human species, because
that metric measures the rate of human-societal [self-]reproduction, both
actual and potential -- actual, for the past, up to the present of the human
species, therefore also potential, for the future of the human species -- thus
measuring the combined, biological, Human-Genomic, Darwinian fitness of humanity, and the
‘Meta-Darwinian’, cultural, ‘Human-Phenomic’ fitness of humanity, together, as one.

The turn, from the ‘‘‘ascendance-phase’’’ to the
‘‘‘descendance-phase’’’ of the capital-centered system of social relations for
the reproduction of human society is driven by the growth of the human social
forces of production to a level beyond that at which, core,
concentrated-ownership industrial capital, hence capitalism itself, can be
profitable for its core ruling class.

That is, this turning point is the point after which the losses to core, concentrated-ownership
industrial capital-value profitability, due to the ‘technodepreciation’ of
ever-increasing portions of its fixed-capital-embodied capital-value, caused by
further growth of the social forces of production, and by the
competition-enforced retirement and periodic write-off of ever-increasing
portions of that fixed-capital-value, against earnings, out-balances the gains to earnings -- to core,
concentrated-ownership industrial capital-value profitability -- due to the
heightened “factor productivity”, and the reduced unit costs of production,
also caused by that further growth of the social forces of production.

Thereafter -- after that turning point -- the superficial
appearance of core, concentrated-ownership, core-ruling-class-owned industrial
capital profitability, and the economic enforcement of that superficial appearance, can only
be maintained by drastic and draconian measures, measures which increasingly
squander, destroy, and reverse the historic growth of the human social forces
of production, which increasingly ‘‘‘de-industrialize’’’ the geographical
capitalist core, and which also otherwise compromise human social reproduction,
and which thus, more and more -- and at an accelerating rate, as this
‘‘‘descendance phase’’’ of modern society ensues -- reduce the combined,
Darwinian, human-Genomic, and ‘Meta-Darwinian’, ‘human-Phenomic’ fitness of the human species, impending a
‘descendance-phase denouement’ of ruling-class-imposed [self-]extinction of
that human species.

That is, the psycho-socio-political-economic phenomena that are the
consequences of that turning point transform the once-progressive
‘ascendance-phase ruling-class’ into a 'hyper-degenerate', ‘descendance-phase
ruling-class’, characterized by contradictory ideologies which can be described
as ‘HumanAnti-Humanism’ [‘‘‘local’’’ historical name:“Eugenics”], ‘Capitalist Anti-Capitalism’
[including protracted suppression of capitalist industrialization in the
capitalist “hinterland”, the “periphery” of the geographical capitalist core,
creating the “Third World”], and inverted, perverted application of the lessons
of the human-social sciences developed in the ‘‘‘ascendance phase’’’, so as to
reverse human progress by reversing the growth of the social forces of
production [‘‘‘local’’’ historical description:‘Anti-Marxian
Marxianism’].

This 'hyper-degenerated' ruling class thus promotes, in
stealth, policies of police-state, totalitarian state-capitalism, and of “Eugenics”, i.e., of genocide -- of global wars of mass
extermination, of global multi-genocide; of both overt and covert,
stealth genocide, and of catastrophic, Neo-Malthusian “population reduction”.

This 'hyper-degenerated' ruling-class does so, eventually, in
part, via its promotion of various varieties of “People Are Pollution”
ideology, of new anti-progress, anti-science, anti-“technology”,
‘descendance-phase ideologies’, such we have seen ‘‘‘locally’’’-- a
plutocracy-funded global resurgence of Dark Ages Religions, of Neo-Luddite
“Back-to-Nature”-isms and “Neo-Primitivisms”, of “Small-Is-Beautiful”-isms [i.e., of ‘Weak-is-Beautiful-ism’ re:the collective political power of the working-class to defend itself
against ruling-class-imposed contracted social reproduction], of voluntary
self-destitution of the working class for the sake of “The Environment”, of
“Zero [i.e., negative] Economic Growth” for the global majority / working class,
of “Zero [i.e., negative] Population Growth” for the global majority, of
Animalism, etc., etc., ad nauseam.

In sum, this 'hyper-degenerated' ruling class -- in order to
maintain its rule against the ‘technodepreciation’ of the core-capital-value
economic foundation of its power; against the overthrow of its foundation by
the growth of the social forces of production -- is hell-bent on imposing a
new, neo-feudal Dark Ages upon the majority of global humanity, with the core
of that ‘descendance-phase ruling-class’ as the ruling, New Dark Ages
neo-/pseudo-“aristocracy”.

However, this New Dark Age is likely, contrary to the
demented intentions and ‘hyper-unrealistic’ expectations of the
‘descendance-phase ruling class’, to quickly become a permanent, ‘Final Dark
Age’ for planet Earth --
one which not even the ‘exo-human’ planetary biosphere can survive -- in the
form of a rapid, self-imposed extinction of the human species, including of that ‘Neroan’, ‘Caligulan’
‘descendance-phase ruling-class’ itself, albeit itself so included contrary to its/their will.

When a sun-like star -- imprisoned by the ‘self-force’ of
the ‘self-destiny’ determined by its own, inner ‘intra-duality’ [its
‘‘‘dialectical internal contradiction’’’] of self-caused, self-gravitational
self-contraction, and of its opposing, self-contraction-induced core fusion
thermonuclear self-expansion -- converts ~all of its core Hydrogen into core
Helium, and begins to “burn” the Helium “ash” that remains there, it leaves the
“stellar Main Sequence”, enters its ‘stellar descendance phase’, and heads
toward stellar death.

Like such a sun, modern society, capital-centered human
society, when the ‘intra-duality’ of core capital no longer “nets-out” on the
side of “self-expanding value” [Marx], through the reinvestment of surplus-value
into new constant and variable capital, but, instead, begins to “net-out” on
the opposite side, on the side of “self-contracting capital-value” [Seldon], due to
accelerating ‘technodepreciation’ of high-fixed-capital-composition
core-capital, modern society too enters its ‘‘‘descendance-phase’’’ -- enters a
decline in its ‘social self-reproductive self-force’, a decline in its
social-reproductive fitness which likewise destines it for self-destruction.

Luckily, human societies -- evolved later than, and,
consequently, at a higher ‘meta-fractal’ scale of ‘inclusion complexity’ than
stars -- contain greater ‘‘‘degrees of freedom’’’ than do, more deterministic,
stars, so that there is still hope that we humans can pull out of the tail-spin
of our ‘‘‘descendance phase’’’ as capital.

To start “pulling out”, and “pulling up”, from our present
and longstanding tail-spin into a New/Final Dark Age; to restart human
progress; to resuscitate/regenerate human social reproduction, to begin to
re-grow the human social forces of production -- the very ‘self-forces’ of
human, social self-reproduction, of human-social ‘self-productivity’ -- we must,
collectively, ‘human-Phenomically’, learn something fundamental, yet new [to
us].

We must learn to distinguish, conceptually, and to separate,
in practice, capital from “technology”, capital from advanced-productivity
means of production, and capital “profitability” from human-social
‘‘‘profitability’’’ -- from human-species fitness-maintaining and fitness-expanding human-social
‘self-reproductivity’.

If and when enough of us do so, then humanity can leave
capital behind, i.e., we can subsume it, «aufheben» “contain” it, “contain” its
dangers, and move on -- move up -- into the first-ever Global
Renaissance of
humanity, a renaissance of humanity as “the associated producers”, the
producers of a re-accelerated growth of the social forces of production, the
‘self-producers’, the producers of a newly-growing planetary, ‘planetized’
humanity, expanding beyond our home planet.

“Overcome, we, the Iblis
within ourselves, and the cosmos will be our canvas.”“We ourselves will be our works of art.”“We ourselves will be our work of art.” [Karl Seldon].

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Key Implications of the New Constitutional Right of ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’,

a Higher Human Right that Emerges into Conditional
Necessity -- as Necessary on Condition

that Humanity Survives -- During the ‘Descendance
Phase’ of the Capital-Equity-basedMode

of
Human-Social Reproduction.

Dear Readers,

¿What does ‘political-economicdemocracy’ look like at the level of economic
production?

Below is my rendition of a part of the answer, based upon a
proposal by the Equitist Advocacy.

The very fact that the people’s -- the producers’ -- own [self-]government now provides “capital” to self-organized sub-groups of the
people, based upon their collective merit, upon the collectivemerit of each such sub-group’s Citizen
Stewardship producers’ cooperative business plan, already, in itself, renders such
“capital” no longer ‘‘‘capital’’’ in the Marxian sense.

That is, the means of production, provided to a
thus-qualified and thus-constituted Citizens Stewardship Cooperative, is no
longer ‘‘‘capital’’’ in the sense of a social institution -- i.e., of a social
relation of production -- that, together with the social institution of an
equally ruling-class monopolized ownership of property in land, separates the
vast majority of the people, of the workers, of the producers, from the means
of their production, and of their daily reproduction, of their, and of human
society’s, livelihoods, and life, respectively.

Capital, in that sense, is the social relation that
“proletarianizes” that vast majority, forcing them, if they are to survive, to
survive as self-sellers, as self-alienators -- as prostitutes -- to that capital, that is, to
the class of the owners of capital and of landed property.

They have become, instead, collective
self-employers, and thus also collective owners of the profits that they
produce, as well as individual owners of the work-time compensation that they
earn, using the whole-society-owned means of production to which, based upon
the merit of their business plan, they have been granted stewardship -- not
local ownership -- by a Citizen Stewardship Equity social bank, competing with
other such social banks, and in return for a social rent for the use of those
means of production, paid out of the proceeds of what they produce, and sell,
in competition with other such Citizen Stewardship enterprises, using those
means of production.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

I just cannot resist, in certain cases, sharing with you contributions to the Foundation's internal dialogues, whose public airing may make some members of the F.E.D. General Council -- of which I am not a member -- feel a bit uneasy.

But when the transcripts of these dialogues do not bear the inscription "not yet ready for public sharing", I do sometimes share them, here, and elsewhere, with publics outside the Foundation.

I share them when I feel that they will be of public benefit.

Such a case is a key contribution by Karl Seldon to the Foundation internal dialogue on recent accelerated global progress -- especially in the U.S., and especially not in the Russian Federation -- toward the full actualization of LGBT ['''Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, and Trans-Gender'''] human rights, that is, the actualization of the human rights of minorities which have been, in the West and elsewhere, viciously persecuted for centuries.

The specific quote from Seldon's contributions that I selected, and that I reproduced below, does not address the major irony of this progress.

That irony is the way in which evil, sometimes, unwittingly and unwillingly on the part of evil, is pressed into the service of the good.

In this case, the ruling, "Eugenics" faction of the capitalist ruling-class is favoring, allowing, and even promoting this one, LGBT, area of human rights progress, while it is attacking, and doing its best to reverse, virtually every other area of human rights progress.

That ruling class is doing so because it collectively believes that greater tolerance of LGBT ways of life, along with greater tolerance for, e.g., "extreme cougar" martial relationships, etc., etc., will lower human fertility rates, and thus accrue to the furtherance of the "Eugenics", "population reduction" agenda of that globally ruling faction of the capitalist ruling class.

Plus, advancing LGBT rights is a low-cost option for the ruling-class-prostituted Obama administration to engage, so as to retain some shred of a semblance of qualifying as a democratic, pro-people regime, while it implements anti-people and anti-democratic policies in virtually all other policy domains.

Nevertheless, as a general statement regarding human rights in the arena of sexual and 'genderal' minorities, Seldon's statement, reproduced below, is -- well, I have not encountered its equal.

Regards,

Miguel

Seldon: "In the end, we will all lose each other, including those who we have come to love the most."

"In the end, we will all also lose ourselves."

"When those who have found love for one another, reach out to touch one another, reach out to commune bodily, spiritually with one another, it is a precious thing, creating precious moments of mutual delight, of ecstasy, of incandescent aliveness, snatched from out of the very jaws of our always-impending deaths."

"So let us leave off from the folly of prohibiting love, from the folly of prohibiting ecstasy, from the folly of prohibiting bodily, spiritual communion between consenting adults, because those lovers are -- supposedly, by some unreasoned convention, by some arbitrary presumption -- of the "wrong" genders, of the "wrong" "races", of the "wrong" ages, of the "wrong" marital statuses, etc., etc."

"Let us, instead, exalt universally in the precious sacredness, in the universal valuableness, and in the heightened aliveness of loving communion between human beings who have come into their majority."

Saturday, September 07, 2013

The Global Samizdat website is a site for anonymously-authored, "openly-shared communications and critiques".

That site continues the spirit of the national "samizdat" hand-to-hand circulation of "forbidden" manuscripts -- "forbidden" by the police-state, totalitarian dictators of the Stalinist Soviet Union -- a circulation of manuscripts which catalyzed a society-wide circulation of ideas that helped to prepare the social ground, in the old USSR, for the overthrow of at least the Stalinist form of state-capitalism there.

As of yesterday, that website has picked up the "Guest Author" viewpoint-statement from my immediately-previous blog-entry here, and published it there, as article "GS-21":

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

On "field assignments" for the Foundation, one often encounters citizens who attain extraordinary insight into, and discernment of, what is afoot in our present -- living -- history, despite the lack of access, by such citizens, to anything like the Foundation's research archives, or its internal analytical culture.

Today's anonymous "Guest Author" is a case in point, as reflected in his "viewpoint" piece, reproduced below.

Enjoy, and take heart!

Regards,

Miguel

"I wanted to
share a viewpoint and then the words to a song that I composed called
"They".

The viewpoint is that it is all of our responsibilities to keep this great
country, America, free and to preserve our Freedoms. Because if this country
goes sour or falls, it WILL then be a dark day for those of us that remain,
there will be no country with enough will and power to set America straight or
defeat it's oppressors as this country did for Germany in WWII. Imagine how our
world would look if America had NOT been able to stop Adolf Hitler and his
psychotic plans for the world!

Looking back to the 60's, many who protested the
War in Vietnam, relentlessly, never giving up the fight to get us out of that
war, may feel in some way that the "revolution" failed. But in
reality it did not. Young people at that time, myself included, were afforded
this moment in time because of the prosperity the country was living through
after the "boys" came home from WWII.

This was a very special time in that the affluence
the United States was experiencing, took the pressure off the youth of the
country just enough so that in that bubble, they had this awesome opportunity
to look, listen, investigate and realize that the War in Vietnam was a war to
support munitions companies and who knows who else, but not very much a war to help freedom emerge. I want
to thank however EVERY honest, ethical soldier who went there to TRY and
preserve Freedoms. NOTHING in this discourse is against those that gave their
lives or who were involved in that War and came home.

And so the youth in this country started to protest
the war and the protesters were relentless AND not drugged or violent in the
beginning. But the relentless exposure of what was really going on with the War
in Vietnam, by thousands and thousands of young people DID make it so unpopular
that politicians were finally forced to be against the war or risk not getting
re-elected. The youth had won and the munitions companies and others had to back off and had to wait and look
elsewhere to make war and profits. Their "joy ride" had come to a
brief end.

But they had help in making sure that these times
were never repeated. The powers that they went to for assistance made sure that
the economy worsened to the point where people no longer had time to think much
about the issues, instead it was work, work, work. While this was going on in
financial circles, people like Timothy Leary, an avowed CIA agent, now began to push more and more drugs into
society and into the hands of young people as a second guarantee that the
youth, and any future youth,
would be so out of it that protests like in the 60's would never be repeated.

These same powers also began to realize that the
media was a tool that could assist them, in their "re-programming" of
the people of America, and so
they bought up the media so that it now would carry their propaganda like never
before and their greatest "success" thus far has been the false threat of
"global warming" which is completely false and has NO basis in fact
whatsoever and is merely a tool to divert our attention, force all of us to
live a "simpler" [i.e., a
destitute] lifestyle, and have less and less while we work more and more
and are taxed higher and higher with no real representation, as the
politicians, who now have to spend enormous sums to be elected or re-elected, cannot do the right and ethical
things for American but who are beholden to those that fund their campaigns.

"Global warming" also serves another
important (to them) function of suppressing the very technology we need to
develop: Fusion Power. When scientists
were making forward advances in Fusion Power, and it looked like harnessing Fusion power would be in reach
soon, basically ending the oil & gas dependency, they dreamed up
"global warming" out of thin air (no pun intended), and simply bought scientists and had
them repeat over and over that "global warming" was real -- pushing
aside the Milankovich data which has never been disproven and which lays out
that global cooling-induced droughts are
in our present, and Ice Ages are in our not-too-distant future, not warming.

One scientist proponent was heard to say that he knew "global warming" was false but
that he also knew where his grant funding money was coming from -- so he
decided to continue spreading the falsehood.

There was also a "house cleaning" of
"undesirable" political and community figures, starting with the
execution, most probably by the CIA,
and its Mafia, and others, of President Kennedy and then Robert
Kennedy, and, of course, Martin Luther King Jr. Even President Reagan was
speaking about sweeping changes in our banking industry before they attempted
to assassinate him and then the subject was never brought up again. And, remember, looking over his shoulder as VP was none other than George Bush
Senior, the former CIA head. Even President Kennedy apparently was
going to start freeing us up
from the stranglehold that the Federal Reserve had, and still has, on this country.

But they learned something else: guns and murders are messy
things and since they had bought the media anyway, why not use this medium as the new assassination tool? It's so
much easier to hand a reporter a "story" on someone you would like to
discredit that says, "It has been reported from sources that maybe, just
possibly, there is a chance that Senator Jones was seen in the company of a
prostitute. And voila!
With no creditable source, no facts, no real reporting, you can pretty much
convince the public with this "story", that Senator Jones should be removed from office, or not be re-elected. If one looked into what he was trying to do
-- oh, well, you might find that
he was either speaking out against "global warming", wanting to end
or control the Federal Reserve, or to
institute a real drug policy that would stop the flow of illegal drugs that our
youth and citizens are being hooked on,
or to investigate psychiatry's crimes and unlawful activities, like overbilling, etc., etc., or trying to institute any number of policies that would be
good for the country, but that go against the interests of the vested interests.

In closing for now, I note that Mae Brussell (1922-1988), from the Santa Cruz area, had a radio
show for many years, and that
she had investigated events just after WWII and discovered that the worst of
the Germans had been beaten in WWI by
America, and had lost to America
again, of course, in WWII,so that they realized that the only way to defeat this magical
thing that America possesses in abundance (a love of freedom for the
individual) was to go inside the United States, and to defeat that love
of freedom from WITHIN. Mae Brussell had discovered FACTS that
indeed elements of the Nazi government were
given positions in our
national "security" apparatus right after WWII, and it is interesting
to see the effects of that disastrous inclusion of Nazis in our government.
That ideology cares NOTHING for the freedom of the individual, and basically stands against
everything our Founding Fathers
stood for, and risked their very lives for.

The ONLY weapon to defend against these evils that
makes sense to me in these times is constant awareness, constant listening and
looking, because that defense is the responsibility of all of us: the
preserving of the freedoms and liberties this country, that no other country represents
so well.

I fully believe that the powers that are actually
controlling this country have already decided that Hillary Clinton will be the
next President of the United States...no matter how the people vote. Apparently
there is a system in place in computers tied in with our voting that can render
ANY election a 51 - 49 decision with a flip of a switch -- which is undetectable
unless one possesses the secret
code used to make that vote hit those numbers. If they are not counting
our votes any longer -- one could simply drop into apathy and say "well, what CAN any
longer be done"?

What can be done is to be aware, to be ethical, to
instill in your children the knowledge as to what is right, and what is wrong,
and to keep oneself aware that there are mad individuals who would dream up and
enact such plans -- but also
that they can never win, because they actually are blind and cannot hit the
right target, but that they can make some noise while we are taking this
country back on the road to individual liberties (intact), and to freedoms
protected -- that is really our best defense. Also, supporting legislation
which would lower dramatically the amount of money that can be generated from
ANY one source for a person seeking political office, WILL help to break the
control that vested interests now hold over our elected officials.

And watch "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
again (tells what's really going
on in Washington), and watch "Missing" (tells to what degraded
depths, and how far our leaders will go to suppress anyone that gets in the way of their plans and profits), and
watch "Oh God", because this movie (especially the bathroom scene)
tells us all whose responsibility it is for the condition our world ends up in.

And finally, hear the words to my song
"They":

"When I was young, I never worried, I always thought the world would get by.Then they got us involved, in a war in Asia,the reason they did, was not for our eyes.

Oh the youth, they rose in rebellion,taking to the streets, exposing the lies.Youth had to be stopped, they were exposing too
much,so drugs were introduced, to silence the cries.

Oh didn’t they kill, all our heroes,the ones who would have really, made some change.One by one, they silenced these voices,‘till all the politicians, sounded the same.

A new battle cry, “the environment”,marches and speeches, to save the earth.New technology, would be the solution,oil and gas, no longer first.

Oh that rocked a couple fellers at the Foundation,do you know what I mean?What if Fusion could be realized.They said, “Let’s make technology a bad word”.So the greenhouse effect was devised.

Now a financial crisis, the world over.I wonder if someone has committed crimes?The Federal Reserve that prints all our money,seems to gain a lot of interest, at these times.

When I was young, I never worried,I always thought the world would get by…"